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Kyo

#10,255 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Kanji

Kyo has been given to 201 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #10,255 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Kyo, 2025

1 in 474,000

Kyo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kyo: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Kanji

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kyo means

Kyo is a alternate transcription of Kanji.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kanji.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 201 boys were recorded with the name Kyo between 2004 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2020; its best national rank was #5,591 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,591 in 2020 to #10,255 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,211 in 2015 to #10,255 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Kyo?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,255
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kyo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kyo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kyos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kyo was born before 2017 — so the typical Kyo is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
201
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.8% of all recorded uses (86).

Is Kyo rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−3,178
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,664
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,044
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.88×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.8%
Peak was 2020 (16)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,591
2020

Where Kyo is used

Across 1910–2025, Kyo was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kyo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kyo around the world

Where Kyo ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2013–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • France
    2004–2024
    #4,031
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2018–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1998–2004
    #589
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kyo by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,255
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,664
Best rank ever
#5,591
2020
Peak year
2020
16 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
201
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Kyo

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Kyo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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